Environment and Development / Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (multi-lingua)

The traditional approaches to development in academic or policy circles have not coped, by and large, with the transformation of the processes of development under the conditions of multidimensional globalization, technological change, multiculturalism, and ecological consciousness. In this public lecture Manuel Castells explores a reconceptualisation of development in the global information age.

Manuel Castells Reconceptualising Development in the Global Information Age

Elva Arrieta, Fernando Illanes, M. Teresa Larrea, Diego Mory y Vanity Torres

Resumen "La Sociedad Red" de Manuel Castells

Speaker(s): Professor Lord Giddens | Professor Lord Giddens published The Politics of Climate Change in 2007and is currently preparing a new edition for publication in 2015. In this lecture he will consider how much progress has been made since the work was first published in containing global warming - arguably one of the greatest threats to a stable future for humanity. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording).

The Politics of Climate Change 2014: what cause for hope? [Audio]

A couple weeks back Gaslamp Killer was in London to promote his Serato x GLK 'Break Stuff' collaboration, and he swung by Brownswood to record a mix and an interview. 

Check the 3 part interview with Gilles here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQvB7cl-_U

Tracklist below:
Alexandre Desplat – Clip from The Tree Of Life Soundtrack (Lakeshore Records)
Khruangbin - A Calf Born In Winter  (Late Night Tales)
Yanti Bersaudara - Bulan Dagoan (Unknown)
Khun Narin - Lam Phu Thai (Innovative Leisure) 
Man - Prelude / The Storm (Sanctuary Records)
Lose Sospechos - Fading Embers (Postales Theme) 
Dungeon- Satt Att Se (Mexican Summer)
Serge Gainsbourg - Generique Pop 2 (Le Smoke Disque)
The Heliocentrics - The Zero Hour (Now-Again Records)
Meredith Monk - The Candy Bullets And Moon (Tzadik)
Shark Attack - Speedy Karma (Unknown)
K. Frimpong and his Cubano Fiestas - Kyenkyen Bi Adi M'awu (Ofo Bros)
Malcom Catto - Vibes (Mo Wax)
BEAK - Deserters (White Label)
Los Mirlos - Sonido Amazonico (Infopesa)
Gaslamp Killer x Mophono - Murder Man (Unreleased Exclusive)



Gaslamp Killer Mix on Gilles Peterson Worldwide (GPWW917)

Summer_NoSummer

last one of these. straight bangers 2015.

W I N T E R ' S  E N D

Let us introduce our podcast presenters, Britt Wray and Dr Ellie Cosgrave, and get a taste of the weird and wonderful world of the new Tomorrow's World podcast from the BBC. Includes cats, wizards, meatballs, floating cities and climate change. Join the conversation using #MyTomorrow.

Trailer - Introductions

Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave ask how can we meld machinery and our minds? Is it possible to create seamless communication between human brains and computers? Inventors and scientists, including Elon Musk, are fascinated by brain-machine interfacing. Not only do they hope we’ll be able to control technology with our thoughts – they are working towards humans being able to transmit information directly into one another’s brains. It’s taking factual ideas to sensory inputs. So, don the wizard’s hat (and your headphones) and enter Tomorrow’s World. Join the conversation online using #MyTomorrow Click subscribe to keep up to date with all the latest episodes. Please note: this episode contains mild swearing.

Brain-machine interfaces - the next step in our evolution?

Will the cities we live in become uninhabitable due to climate change, overpopulation and other factors that lie in our future? 
If so, should we be investing in floating cities now to solve this problem? What might they look and sound like?

We meet the so-called Aquapreneurs and Seavangelists crafting models for these floating habitats. They have ambitious, yet dramatically different theories to solve these not-so-distant problems. Ship scientist Philip Wilson puts their futuristic ideas to the test, along with the plans of our “mystery floaters”.

Pop on your headphones for the full experience and join the conversation using #MyTomorrow.

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Guidance: Contains science experiments that should not be repeated at home.

Will we live in floating cities?

Meet Mary. She’s sentient and she’s conscious, just like us.

The difference? She’s an Artificial Intelligence.

Britt and Ellie want to know what the future holds for AI, and so they follow Mary through her dramatic tale. At every twist and turn, they ask if she needs humankind to protect her.

If Mary mirrors human qualities, should she also have human rights?

Britt and Ellie also investigate the embodiment of robots and why we feel compelled to produce them in human form. They meet those fighting to give “human” rights to chimpanzees…

Pop on your headphones for the full experience and join the conversation using #MyTomorrow.

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What if AI takes over in 2045?

At sunrise, on the banks of the Ganges river, the poet and radio producer Pejk Malinovski picks out a cow at random and starts to follow her. He continues to follow her until sunset.

The cow was here long before man arrived. Does the fact that human beings have maths, space travel and doughnuts really make us superior to all other beings on earth? What does the cow have that we don't have? Four stomachs. Hooves. A lot of patience.

A meditative journey unfolds within the sonic backdrop of the ancient city of Varanasi - until suddenly the two of them find themselves on the set of a Bollywood dance film.

A consideration of the nature of radio, a pondering of inter-species relationships, Pejk's programme invites you to un-follow your digital stream and exercise your ability to be just present.

Written and produced by Pejk Malinovski.
First broadcast 24th February 2018, BBC Radio 3

A Cow A Day

A section of A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace as written by John Perry Barlow on February 8th 1996. Set to music for the Tomorrow's World Podcast. From Episode 7, Do we need a new internet? Are we living in an Orwellian nightmare or A Brave New World? In this seventh episode, Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave meet the people who want to bring that dream back using their alternative internet networks. Together, they imagine what the internet could or should look like in the future.

Cory Doctorow joins Britt and Ellie to navigate this huge subject as we meet former Wikileaks journalist James Ball, blockchain experts Stephen Tual and Juan Benet, Jilian York from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, security researcher Leonie Tanczer, Chaos Computer Club spokesman Linus Neumann, TOR developer Isis Agora Lovecruft and Mr C, co-founder of Hack Lab.

Tomorrow’s World

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Our university departments are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary where people from different backgrounds come together to keep each other in check while tackling large issues that have a lot at stake. One place this is happening is in synthetic biology, where computer scientists, engineers, biologists, ethicists, sociologists and artists “hold hands” in the lab as they develop new approaches to genetic engineering. Dr. Hilary Rose gets real on the promise of interdisciplinarity, and explains her concerns about what she thinks might be the dulling of criticality through such endeavours. Somehow, amazingly, she also manages to touch on feminism, the radical science movement, and Occupy!

Dr. Hilary Rose is a prominent British feminist of sociology of science and social policy. Currently she is Visiting Research Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bradford and Professor Emeritus of Physick, Gresham College, London. In 1997 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Uppsala for her contribution to the feminist sociology of science and in 2001 her book Love Power and Knowledge: Towards a feminist transformation of the sciences was listed one of the “101 Best Books of the 20th Century” (Mulheres Seculo XX 101 Livros) published by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

The Tympanic Eclipse: academia and activism - DR. HILARY ROSE

I'm a radio producer and writer, doing my PhD in science communication at the University of Copenhagen, which has a focus on sound. Formerly I was a producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The tracks here are a smattering of things old and new, varying from my days in pirate radio, community radio, public broadcasting, and experimenting. I don't often update this page. brittwray.com 




Transforming Curitiba from the "greenest city on earth" to an ecocity. Urban ecology, permaculture and community projects for bottom up eco & social change. 

"Ecocity Group Curitiba" founder Duncan Crowley is currently doing a 2 year Masters Research programme in the public university UFPR, in MADE (Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento / Environment and Developement). His research area is: "From the village to the city: Confronting climate change by creating ecocities ". 

The Tympanic Eclipse: academia and activism - DR. HILARY ROSE

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